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Coding inpatient discharge summary diagnosis

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lilrascal5

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I have come across many inpatient discharge diagnosis that do not match. For example the discharge diagnosis will Schizophrenia but below that it will have the axis 1 and it will say Paranoid Schizophrenia. I was always taught to go with the "discharge diagnosis" when billing the discharge summary, however the axis 1 was more specific. Are there any rules regarding which one to use for billing the discharge summary?

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Darla
 
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